Lectures and seminar discussions of the Nordic New Testament Conference, Aug. 18-22, 2007 at Sundsgr̄dens Folkhg̲skola.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-316) and indexes.

Christology and identity in an intertextual perspective : the glory of Adam in the narrative substructure of Paul's letter to the Romans / Samuel Byrskog -- The controversy on self-testimony according to John 5:31-40; 8:12-20 and Philo, Legum allegoriae III.205-208 / Per Jarle Bekken -- Rituals of (ex-)communication and identitiy : 1 Cor. 5 and 4Q266 11; 4Q 270 7 / Tobias Hg̃erland -- Literary strategies of personification / Judith Lieu -- The antagonists : rhetorically marginalized identities in the New Testament / Laurie Thurň -- Son of Man and early Christian identity formation / Thomas Kazen -- Social identity and a stereotype in the making : Pharisees as hypocrites in Matt. 23 / Raimo Hakola -- Act as a Christ-believer, as a household member or both? A cognitive perspective on the relation between the social identity in Christ and household identities in pauline and deutero-pauline texts / Rikard Roitto -- Body, gender, and social space : dilemmas in constructing early Christian identities / Halvor Moxnes - A man has to do what a man has to do : protocols of masculine sexual behaviour and 1 Corinthians 5-7 / Fredrik Ivarsson -- Masculine or feminine? Male virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and the Book of Revelation / Hanna Stenstrm̲ -- The parousia as medicine : a postcolonial persective on Mark and Christian identity construction / Hans Leander -- Mission of Christ and local communities in Acts / Christina Petterson -- Perpetua and Felicitas : reinterpreting empire, family and gender / Anna Rebecca Solevḡ.